Tag Archives: Average Person

We Don’t Need No Education

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: April 4, 2013

I watched an interesting video recently (Escape to the Movies, escapistmagazine.com) that suggested the strength of Stephanie Meyers’s work is that it is, more or less, professional “Outsider” art. The idea is that Meyers isn’t a very good writer, but she also is offering something different exactly because she hasn’t been pounded and shaped by [...]

Posted in Blog, Writing | Also tagged Arcs, Artistic Conventions, Crap, Dead Horse, Education, Outsider Art, People, Plodding, Plot Structure, Point Of View, Professional Artist, Stephanie Meyers, Storytelling Technique, Stuff, Stupid Thing, Truth, Twilight, Worldview | 5 Comments

Things You Should Buy

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: August 3, 2012

Buy my books. I think I don’t say that enough. I like that my blog isn’t just an endless series of commercials, but the thing about commercials is that they work. The whole reason this site exists is because I write books. You would most probably not be here if I wasn’t a semi-famous novelologist. [...]

Posted in Blog, Video Games | Also tagged Character Design, Commercials, Cool Stuff, Cutting Edge, Dinosaurs, Earning Money, Edge 3d Graphics, Endless Series, Enemy Base, Execution, Mario, Monsters, Multiplayer Game, Personality, Premise, Proud Tradition, Realism, Turrets, Xbox Live | 4 Comments

Subjective

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: June 4, 2012

Helen and Troy’s Epic Road Quest is off to the editor, and while that doesn’t mean the book is done (far from it), it does clear up my schedule a little. It’s funny how little the average person knows about the publishing business. Just to give a quick summary: -I write the book -I revise [...]

Posted in Blog, Movies, Writing | Also tagged Decent Flick, Deliberate Choice, Excitement, Execution, Hard Time, Hot Buttons, Huntsman, Marketing Department, Mirror Mirror, Printers, Reading A Book, Revisions, Sense Of Fun, Smiles, Snow White, Striking Visuals, Telling A Good Story, Timeline, Vital Elements | 5 Comments

Reality-ish

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: August 4, 2011

I’m becoming a big fan of the concept of Reality unless otherwise noted. It is a fairly new idea when it comes to modern fantasy, a natural offshoot of the Urban Fantasy genre. Although it’s actually much older. H.G. Wells and Jules Verne usually set their stories in the real world unless otherwise noted. It [...]